Improvement in cutting- apparatus for harvesters



H1. MBWES. CUTTING APPARATUS PoR HARVESTERS.

1111. 105,111. Patented July 5,1870.

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Letters Patent No. 105,111, dated July 5, 1870.

, IMPROVEMENT IN CUTTING- APPARA'TUS FOR HARVESTERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of thesame.

To atl whom yit may conce/rn Be it known that I, HENRY MEWEs, ofBinghamton, in the county of Broome and in the'State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Harvesters; and dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawingmaking a part' of this specication, in which- Figure 1 is a plan viewofmy improved device, and

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same, on the line :v:c of fig. 1.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of thefigures.

My invention is an improvement in harvesters; and

It consists in the employment of a divided cutterbar, the sections ofwhich are caused to move simultanclelously in opposite directions, as ishereinafter set ort In harvesters, as ordinarily constructed, thecutter- `bar, pitman, and crank move simultaneously in the samedirection, and, not being counterbalanced, their weight causes aconsiderable shock and strain each time that their direction is changed,iwhereby the durability of the parts immediately connected therewith islargely decreased.

To obvia-te these objections, I divide the cutter-bartransverselyintotwo sections, A and B, whieh sections vvork upon thesame finger-bar, and are connected by-means'of pitmen O and Dwitl1suitable cranks, E and F, attached to and forming a part of a shaft, G,which cranks are placed directly opposite to veach other, so as tocausersaid 'pitmen and sections to 'erated as described, so that thesections thereof shall move simultaneously in' oppositedirections.

In testimony that I 'claim the foregoing, I have here-- unto set my handthis 28th day of December, 1869. HENRY 'MEWES Witnesses:

E. W. BmGH'AM, G. W. PENREE.

